During January this year, the average temperature in Nuuk was 0.1 degrees Celsius. This is the first time since measurements began that the January average has been above freezing.
The previous heat record was minus 1.3 degrees Celsius, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).
We both know and can clearly see that global warming is in full swing, which, quite unexpectedly, is resulting in several records at the warm end of the temperature scale, says the institute's climate scientist Martin Olsen.
The warmest day in Nuuk was 11.3 degrees Celsius. The rest of Greenland's west coast, where most of the island's inhabitants live, also had a record-breaking warm January.
